The wide-range of global news coming from Al Jazeera

One thing I immediately noticed when I went to Al Jazeera's website was how global and massive their scale of reporting was. As someone who primarily reads American news, I was astounded by how every single section of their site covered a ton of different countries and did not seem to have one country more favored over the others in terms of coverage.

When I go to an American news site, I often see American or sometimes European-centric articles and then a section for global news. This is not the case for Al Jazeera; when you click through the different sections of their news such as opinion or features, it is a very wide variety of geographical coverage. Here are some screenshots of what their features section looked like today if you continued scrolling down.

As you can see, they cover about seven different countries within a few days in their features section. The same can be said for their hard news section, coronavirus section (which we will look at more deeply next week), and their opinion section.

I think that there are great benefits to this type of global reporting that they are doing. Not only does it make the reader more informed about everything going on, but it also reaches a wider audience. By writing about places all over the world, they are gaining an audience from that part of the world. Global reporting is so important because it can be easy to get caught up in your own country and forget that there a whole world with just as important news stories that are worth reporting on and reading about.

Also worth noting is the fact that they break their hard news section out by geographical location as well, making it even easier to get news from all over the world.

This is what that option looks like and each location has a ton of articles covering a variety of topics. Al Jazeera has clearly committed itself to be a front runner in global news coverage and I think they do an excellent job of translating that on their website and the stories they publish.